Travellers in Ottoman Lands : : The Botanical Legacy.

• Author: Asceric-Todd, Ines.
• TeilnehmendeR: Knees, Sabina.; Starkey, Janet.; Starkey, Paul.
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Archaeopress,, 2018.; ©2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (409 pages)

This splendidly illustrated book focuses on the botanical legacy of many parts of the former Ottoman Empire -- including present-day Turkey, the Levant, Egypt, the Balkans, and the Arabian Peninsula -- as seen and described by travellers both from within and from outside the region.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Previous volumes published from ASTENE Conferences -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- In memory of Irene Linning -- Contents Page -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Semih Lütfü Turgut, Turkish Consul General in Edinburgh -- Preface -- Sabina Knees -- Introduction to Travellers in Ottoman Lands: The Botanical Legacy -- Paul Starkey -- Acknowledgements -- Paul Starkey -- THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE -- 1 -- Map 1. An engraved map of the Ottoman Empire and coloured by hand and engraved by Frans Hogenberg. It is map no. 50 in Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Anvers, 1602, updated from the Antwerp 1570 edition), the atlas by Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) called (Muzeul -- Map 2. Map showing Ottoman Lands at their greatest extent. Compiled from several sources by Vanezza Morales. -- The Ottoman Empire: an introduction to its history and heritage -- Figure 1. The Ayasofya mosque in Istanbul (photograph I. Aščerić-Todd). -- Figure 2. The Gaziler Tekke and türbe in Sarajevo, before their demolition in 1950 (from Mušeta-Aščerić 2005 -- image reproduced with the author's permission). -- Figure 3. Isa-bey's Tekke in Sarajevo before its demolition in 1957 (graphic representation from an original photograph taken before 1957 -- from Mušeta-Aščerić 2005 -- image reproduced with the author's permission). -- Figure 4. Sarajevo today: a view of the old town at night, featuring Gazi Hüsrev-bey's mosque, Sarajevo's principal mosque, built as part of a major pious foundation endowment (vakıf) in 1531 (photograph I. Aščerić-Todd). -- Figure 5. A Halveti tekke at Blagaj in Herzegovina. The tekke, dating from the seventeenth century, is situated in a remote and highly spiritually symbolic location, built against the rock face at the entrance of a cave formed by the source of the river B.

Figure 6. Topkapı Sarayı, the Ottoman Imperial Palace in Istanbul (photograph I. Aščerić-Todd). -- Figure 7. The harem inside Topkapı Sarayı, the protected inner rooms of the palace housing the sultan's family and concubines, a setting for many orientalist paintings and images of the nineteenth century (photograph I. Aščerić-Todd). -- Figure 8. The main dome of the Süleymaniye mosque, clearly modelled on the Ayasofya -- the mosque was part of the Süleymaniye complex which included four madrasas, a hospital and medical school, a public kitchen, baths, shops, and stables (photograph I. Ašč -- Figure 9. Koca Mimar Sinan's türbe in Istanbul (photograph I. Aščerić-Todd). -- Figure 10. The new 'Stari Most' in Mostar, Herzegovina, today a UNESCO World Heritage Site -- Mimar Hayreddin's famous bridge, originally completed in 1566, blown up in 1993, and rebuilt using the original sixteenth-century stones, was reopened in 2004 (pho -- Figure 11. Gazi Hüsrev-bey's madrasa in Sarajevo, built in 1537 as part of Gazi Hüsrev-bey's vakıf foundation (photograph I. Aščerić-Todd). -- The Ottoman Empire: an introduction to its history and heritage -- Ines Aščerić-Todd -- THE OTTOMAN GARDEN -- 2 -- Presenting and re-presenting Ottoman imperial gardens in manuscript illustrations: -- Susan Scollay -- 3 -- Ottoman fruit cultivation as reflected in Evliya Çelebi's Book of Travels -- the case of the Oxford Dilsūznāmah, dated AH 860/AD 1455-1456, Edirne -- Priscilla Mary Işın -- 4 -- Presenting and re-presenting Ottoman imperial gardens in manuscript illustrations: -- the case of the Oxford Dilsūznāmah, dated AH 860/AD 1455-1456, Edirne -- Figure 1. The remains of the Bâbuʼsaade Gate of the Edirne Palace, looking towards the south-west from inside the second court (photograph S. Scollay, 2009).

Figure 2. An architectural reconstruction of the central buildings, courtyards, and gardens of the Edirne Palace, drawn by Orhan Çakmakçıoğlu (1923-2003), detail (photograph S. Scollay, 2009, published with permission of Işın Çakmakçıoğlu). -- Figure 3. Love-mad Nightingale takes to the wilderness, detail (from Badīʿ al-Dīn AH 860: fo. 49r, published with permission from the Bodleian Library, Oxford). -- Figure 4. Rose gives Nightingale a handkerchief as a keepsake, detail (from Badīʿ al-Dīn AH 860: fo. 62r, published with permission from the Bodleian Library, Oxford). -- Figure 5. The Kazanlık rose, Rosa damascena var. trigintipetala (courtesy Shutterstock). -- Figure 6. The hospital complex of Bayezid II (r. 1481-1512) in Edirne, completed in 1488 (photograph S. Scollay, 2006). -- Figure 7. An architectural reconstruction of the Saadabad pavilion drawn by Orhan Çakmakçıoğlu (1923-2003), detail (photograph S. Scollay, 2009, published with permission of Işın Çakmakçıoğlu). -- Figure 8. The Saadabad Palace at Kağıthane, the Sweet Waters of Europe (Choiseul-Gouffier 1822 -- courtesy Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation Library, Greece). -- Ottoman fruit cultivation as reflected in Evliya Çelebi's Book of Travels -- Figure 1. Grape vines trained up trees on a country road in Muğla province. -- Figure 2. Grape vines trained up cypress trees in an eighteenth-century Ottoman miniature painting. -- Figure 3. A servant carrying a tray of fruits and flowers as a gift to a vizier, 1657-1658 (National Library of Sweden MS Rålamb 8:0,10). -- Gardens of Istanbul in Persian hajj travelogues -- Güllü Yıldız -- 5 -- Gardens of Istanbul in Persian hajj travelogues -- The public space of the Bakewell Ottoman Garden -- Radha Dalal -- BOTANIST-TRAVELLERS -- 6 -- The public space of the Bakewell Ottoman Garden.

Figure 1. The Victorian District and Maze at the Missouri Botanical Gardens (photograph courtesy of the Missouri Botanical Garden). -- Figure 2. A view of the Ottoman-styled kiosk in the Bakewell Ottoman Garden (photograph courtesy of the Missouri Botanical Garden). -- Figure 3. A view of the wooden bridge in the Seiwa-En Japanese Garden (photograph courtesy of the Missouri Botanical Garden). -- Figure 4. The pagoda and bridge of the Margaret Grigg Nanjing Chinese Friendship Garden covered in snow (photograph courtesy of the Missouri Botanical Garden). -- Figure 5. The red gate entrance to the Bakewell Ottoman Garden, interior view (photograph courtesy of the Missouri Botanical Garden). -- Figure 6. The sundial marking Islamic prayer times (photograph courtesy of the Missouri Botanical Garden). -- Figure 7. A view of the fountain and neatly arranged flower beds (photograph courtesy of the Missouri Botanical Garden). -- Figure 8. An Ottoman-styled bird house (photograph courtesy of the Missouri Botanical Garden). -- Figure 9. Wooden throne (photograph courtesy of the Missouri Botanical Garden). -- Dioscorides' legacy: a classical precursor to travellers in Ottoman lands -- Alison Denham -- Dioscorides' legacy: a classical precursor to travellers in Ottoman lands -- Figure 1. A map showing the places referred to by Dioscorides in the eastern Mediterranean. Places are approximations and are shown by a red circle on the map. ('Roman Empire, AD 69'. Available at http://awmc.unc.edu/wordpress/free-maps/roman-empire/roman -- Figure 2. Vitex agnus-castus, Olympos, near Çıralı south-west of Antalya, Turkey, June 2013 (photograph A. and P. Denham). -- Figure 3. Hypericum perforatum, UK, August 2017 (photograph A. and P. Denham). -- Figure 4. Hypericum scabrum, Barhal (Altıparmak), Artvin, Turkey, June 2014 (photograph A. and P. Denham).

Figure 5. Hypericum montbretii, Barhal (Altıparmak), Artvin, Turkey, June 2014 (photograph A. and P. Denham). -- Figure 6. Oil of Hypericum perforatum, St John's wort, UK, April 2017 (photograph A. and P. Denham). -- 7 -- Botanical explorations by Frederik Hasselquist (1749-1752) and Pehr Forsskål (1761-1763): -- Linné's apostles in the Holy Land -- Botanical explorations by Frederik Hasselquist (1749-1752) and Pehr Forsskål (1761-1763): -- Linné's apostles in the Holy Land -- Figure 1. Hasselquist's travel account Iter Palaestinum eller Resa til Heliga Landet, 1749-1752 was published in 1757 by Carl von Linné, and soon after translated in many European languages. -- Figure 2. Carsten Niebuhr returned as the only survivor of the Royal Danish expedition to Arabia and edited and published Pehr Forsskål's notes (Forsskål 1775). -- Figure 3. A specimen of a tamarisk (Thuja aphylla) collected by Hasselquist -- it was studied by the Swedish botanist Daniel Solander, who just noted 'from the Orient' on the label (Naturhistoriska riksmuseet, Stockholm S09-18977, in the Swedish Virtual Her -- Tobias Mörike -- 8 -- From Ottoman Aleppo to Edinburgh: -- Janet Starkey -- 9 -- The botanist Carl Haussknecht (1838-1903) in the Ottoman Empire and Persia (1865 and 1866-1869): a biographical sketch and itinerary of his expeditions -- the botanical legacies of Adam Freer MD and his colleagues -- Frank H. Hellwig &amp -- Kristin Victor -- From Ottoman Aleppo to Edinburgh: -- the botanical legacies of Adam Freer MD and his colleagues -- Figure 1. a. A sample page of Adam Freer's handwritten list of specimens sent to Dr John Hope in Edinburgh (the list is on loan to the National Records of Scotland (GD 253/143/9/9) and is published here with thanks to the owner -- p. 1 of this list is publi.

Figure 2. Vitex agnus-castus L., no. 154 (not no. 131 as listed by RBGE) on Freer's list of 1769 as Vitex Agnus-Castus, collected in Syria in 1768.